The Israeli Arab public is responsible for the Balad Party not making it into the legislature, a Tel Aviv University expert says.
JNS reports - Communal strife is common in the Arab world and is rooted in tribalism, which has led to numerous Arab defeats throughout history.
The latest example is the elimination of the radical pan-Arab Balad Party from the next Knesset.
Phillip Carl Salzman, a professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, writes in his book Culture and Conflict in the Middle East that factionalism is the norm in the Arab world, where there is constant conflict and fragmentation into smaller groups that are at odds with one another.
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